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An Inclusive Approach to Increasing Access to Student Mental Health Services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In a recent article , Diverse outlined the various mental health challenges students face today and discussed how educators can offer more effective support. Dr. Nichole Kang College campuses have made great strides in making mental health services available to students, but access remains a critical issue.

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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college. This stifles Black student success and contributes to low graduation rates from high schools.

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Student Success in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As chief executive officers in the California community college system, we embarked upon the topic of STEM out of an acute awareness of the lack of Dr. Lennor Johnson opportunities available to disproportionately impacted communities, and a shared commitment to forging increased pathways for those with the least access.

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An Equity and Access Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dueñas’ scholarship addresses issues of equity and access in higher education with a focus on sense of belonging and experiences with imposter syndrome among Latinx students attending four-year colleges and universities. “My Dueñas says she uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine students in their higher educational spaces.

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Black Women Navigating the Path to College Presidency

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In this article, we share the perspectives of three Black female CEOs and our rise to the college presidency. My success has been shaped by failures, triumphs, and uplifting others along the way. I began teaching College Success courses to first generation, low income, multicultural students.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This article serves as both a personal narrative and a broader examination of the evolving landscape of higher education. In my 30-year journey as a university president, I learned that successful leaders are not those who simply speak quickly, but rather those who learn to listen carefully and ask thoughtful questions.

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Grounding Our Inquiry and Change Work in Equitable Post-Graduation Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As part of our work on the Bank of America Jobs Initiative, we have been assisting 21 community colleges and four-year, broad-access public HBCUs and HSIs in 19 urban markets to better connect Black and Latinx students to living-wage job pathways in financial services, information technology, and STEM.

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